Sentences with phrase «quality improvement over»

A paper he published in the October issue of Environmental Research Letters (full article in pdf here) concludes that Beijing's claims to air quality improvement over the past decade may be more a matter of hot air than blue skies.

Whether true or not, if customers really believed that then they'd not be complaining so much — they'd think the higher price was worth the quality improvement over competitive offerings.

In addition, despite considerable water quality improvement over the past 2 decades, blue green algae is a problem for water users in some areas of the Broads National Park.

Or were they not considered a big quality improvement over whom we have?

This included visual, mechanical and quality improvements over the earlier versions.

This is all a very small price to pay for the aesthetic and build quality improvements over the original Pebble.

Not exact matches

The state has provided Flint with over $ 250 million to help with water quality improvements.

He has over 23 years of experience in wine supply strategy, wine - grape quality improvement, brand strategy, and business development.

Because he is clearly an improvement over Walcott and Gnabry and you know Ox case with injuries... the same way we signed Ozil when we have Cazorla (even better than Ozil in my eyes) and other CAM's... It is about signing quality players when they are available... that being said we should never forget about the urgent need for clear ST

However, for all the quality that they've shown over the last two years coupled with the room for improvement that they still have, it might not be enough to fend off interest moving forward.

After watching his tired Gunners battle with all they had to hang on to the lead given us by the rejuvenated and clinical Giroud, Wenger was full of praise for the team spirit and he believes that there has been a huge improvement in those qualities of fight and resilience over the course of the season.

Mktharyan is a good start but we need to replace Alexis quality as Lacazette is good but not a HUGE improvement over Giroud yet.

In fact, in late 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded nearly $ 6 million over three years to the National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality to help hospitals nationwide make quality improvements to maternity care to better support mothers and babies to be able to breaQuality to help hospitals nationwide make quality improvements to maternity care to better support mothers and babies to be able to breaquality improvements to maternity care to better support mothers and babies to be able to breastfeed.

The website, according to him, is also to inform and engage the general populace of activities being undertaken towards the improvement of their quality of life and expand Kwara State prospects of local and foreign direct investments from all over the world».

They've made some improvements over the years but the iconic blue handles still stand for the same quality.

«The improvements over the last decade in terms of both survival and quality of life for patients with this disease are striking, and very encouraging.»

Both the DVD and face to face physiotherapy programmes improved patients» asthma - related quality of life scores (over 12 months) compared with those receiving usual care, with improvements that are comparable to those achieved by increasing medication.

The study found no association between hospital - based participation in the NSQIP and improvements in postoperative outcomes over time, suggesting that a surgical outcomes reporting system does not provide a clear mechanism for quality improvement.

Although many technological improvements have been made to both grape growing and winemaking over the last few decades, climate is often the wild card in determining year - to - year variations in quality.

More importantly, the intervention was associated with overall marriage quality: As in other research, more positive automatic reactions to the partner predicted greater improvements in marital satisfaction over the course of the study.

Statistically significant improvements over placebo in secondary endpoints, including severity and urge to cough, as well as quality of life and global ratings of change.

However, registration of cardiac arrests was prospective and uniform, following the standardized Utstein style for reporting out - of - hospital cardiac arrest and revised for data quality assurance by the RACE - CARS team.18 Our results support efforts of other communities seeking to improve bystander and first - responder intervention, since they come from a quality - improvement database of a substantial portion of the state of North Carolina, with stable reporting over a 4 - year period during a broad implementation program that used a standardized protocol, as recommended by the American Heart Association.13, 20,40

In response to Ethiopia's worst drought in 50 years and the country's critical shortage of maize and wheat seed for sowing in 2016, Ethiopian organizations, seed producers, and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) partnered to deliver over 3,400 tons of high quality seed to farmers, which was sown on more than 100,300 hectares.

From a sample of over 2,600 18 — 85 aged women and men, researchers found that 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity each week gave a 65 % improvement in quality of sleep.

In one study melatonin was shown to exert significant and clinically meaningful improvements in sleep quality, morning alertness, sleep onset latency and quality of life in patients aged 55 years and over.

They found that «improvements in diet quality were mirrored by improvements in mental health over the follow - up period, while deteriorating diet quality was associated with poorer psychological functioning.»

The National Institute of Health, a government agency (not funded by pharmaceutical grants) conducted a clinical trial to see if desiccated thyroid therapy is advantageous to T4 alone (8) The authors of the study concluded: «DTE (Desiccated Thyroid Extract) therapy did not result in a significant improvement in quality of life; however, DTE caused modest weight loss and nearly half (48.6 %) of the study patients expressed preference for DTE over l - T4 (Levothyroxine).

When Tamie first treated me for panic attacks, insomnia, and job stress - related pain relief over the past year, I experienced an almost immediate and dramatic improvement in quality of sleep and less pain in my back and shoulders.

There are a lot of people all over the world opting for yoga in order to lose weight as they recognize the advantages of the holistic practice in an improvement of the overall quality of their lives.

Over the years, we've been making significant improvements to the quality of our food — like reducing sodium across our menu by 15 percent since 2008.

The film does look decent too, with atmospheric scenery and the editing is already an improvement over most SyFy movies in terms of quality.

Overall, the past television season appears to represent an improvement over the previous year in terms of show quality.

Graphics are also an improvement over the Micro Machines games, having a Nintendo Wii - like quality to them.

The audio quality on the other hand is great; truly a substantial improvement over the DVD release.

Like the picture quality, I don't notice a tremendous improvement in this track over the Dolby Digital 5.1 track on the 2007 DVD.

Without the 2001 release in my possession, I can't compare video quality between the two, but those who own both have reported considerable improvement in this new transfer over a reportedly decent transfer on the previous edition.

Despite a strong focus on accessibility and numerous quality - of - life improvements over previous titles, Monster Hunter: World still begs you to muscle through your initial struggles and build a comfort level with the gameplay systems and pacing.

The data displayed in Tables 1 and 2 implies few if any improvements have been made in the democratic quality of any of these six polities over the past decade, with longstanding personalist leaders, imperious ruling parties, and oligarchic political opportunists alike demonstrating their ability to continuously manipulate existing political institutions to impose their mandates over substantive domestic opposition.

But again, when you look at learning outcomes we haven't seen really improvements in the quality of learning in Australia over the last years - at least not on our international metrics.

Nonetheless, Wilson views Common Core math as a vast improvement over existing standards in more than 30 states, doing «a pretty good job with arithmetic,» and ranking in terms of quality in the top 20 percent of current state standards.

It remains possible that the regulation - heavy approach they prefer will lead over time to quality improvements among private schools that decide to participate in choice programs.

Second, the comparatively steady gain in adjusted scores over the period provides evidence of improvements in instructional quality, independent of changes in the amount of time students were in class.

In partnership with the High / SCOPE Educational Research Foundation, PASA also developed the Rhode Island Program Quality Assessment Tool, which all providers of after - school programs can use to assess themselves on specific standards and indicators and to track their improvement over time.

Having over 36 years of experience in the field of Education, Performance Improvement, Strategic Planning, Organizational Leadership, Educational Leadership, Administration and Quality Improvement.

-LSB-...] instruction, providing quality feedback to teachers, focusing our efforts on strategies that work (Hattie's work), sustaining this improvement work over time (years), ensuring the parents are informed and -LSB-...]

Assessing the Quality of Common Core State Standards for Mathematics Educational Researcher, May 2011 Commenting on «Common Core Standards: The New U.S. Intended Curriculum,» the authors whether the CCSS are an improvement over most state mathematics standards and question whether schools and districts have the capacity to support effective implementation.

Successful economic and social reforms over the last two decades have led to major improvements in the quality of life.

We still rely heavily on a voluntary and sometimes rather amateur governance model, where there must be a real question over whether quality is high enough to entrust improvement and challenge to the school, without outside oversight and challenge.

Over the several decades that standardized test results have been used as an accountability measure, few have questioned the assumption that these tests provide evidence that actually reflects school quality and that can promote school improvement.

Janis is a highly successful primary head teacher with over 30 years» experience in education across a range of disciplines including school improvement, quality of teaching and learning, whole school strategic planning, financial controls, project management and human resource management.